IsoBuster 3.8 Released!

June 24, 2016

I'm sure you will appreciate this new version. Again, tons of new functionality, improvements and the few needed bug-fixes. Improvements for the visually impaired, clean new icons, support for *.vdi, *.vhd, *.vhdx files, 4Kn drives with native 4096 bytes per block, and so on. Best just check the huge list below:

Here's a list of what I have been working on:

Changes / New:

Overhaul of all visual aspects of the software to improve things for the visually impaired, for instance high contrast mode works optimally now

Overhaul of all visual aspects of the software to improve scaling (larger than default fonts - still with limits)

Overhaul of all visual aspects of the software to improve and fix Right-to-Left reading where appropriate

The use of 32 bit + Alpha channel icons throughout the software (Sorry Win2K users)

Load and use system icons when appropriate (e.g. Help, Information, Exclamation etc.)

Support for *.vhd Fixed, Dynamic and Differencing Virtual Disk Images

Support for *.vhdx Fixed, Dynamic and Differencing Virtual Disk Images

Support for *.vdi Fixed, Dynamic and Differencing Virtual Disk Images

Full support for 4Kn drives (drives with 4096 bytes per logical sector)

Show streams, attached to files or folders, via right mouse click selection

Show extents of folders, very much the same like on fragmented files

Improvements:

Show Hint text when hovering over Details, List and Small Icons buttons on the main form

Improved ancient annoyance where the StatusBar text/hint when hovering over a TreeNode or selecting a ListNode would disappear again immediately

IsoBuster gets focus again when selected via the task bar and when the properties window is showing

Improved the location of the right mouse click popup, so that it now appears more inline with what Windows does

Improved things so that both percent labels on the progress dialog get updated when 2 progress bars are showing

Ability to resize the device-selection combo-box in the top left corner and option to keep the combo-box and tree-view under it at the same width

Search dialog and Options/Settings dialog resizing by the user

Show Video icon next to "Extract but filter MPEG frames" where it is almost certainly appropriate and make the entry default (bold) to hopefully steer the user in the right direction

Improved the right mouse click popup on a properties window

Show red error icon next to building lists of erroneous sectors (single objects only, not folders)

Default saving disk fragments (From-To) and partitions etc. to file extension *.dsk instead of *.img for better loading support (*.img can also be optical)

Do not show the File/Folder Search option in case the folder has been expanded already and proves to be empty

Add Application and Version information in CUE file

When closing the tray, do not show an error message anymore when the error is illegal field in CDB (05/24/00) or related, because laptops etc. don't support closing and report this with an illegal field in CDB.

Don't even suggest to complete an IBP/IBQ file if there are no other devices other than the IBP/IBQ itself (e.g. no devices found or finding devices disabled and no other image files loaded)

Fomat large numbers with dots or commas (depending on Windows settings) on more locations

Dialogs that take addresses and sizes as input, now allow the input to be formatted with commas and dots

The breadcrumbs control uses the same icons as shown in the treeview control, based on settings

Seriously improved the look and feel of the breadcrumbs control for Windows XP and High Contrast mode

Showing the previous search results, initiated via the search dialog did not work properly

Ctrl+C would not always work in other windows than the main window (e.g. Sector View), because the main window would 'steal' the input

Made changes to the breadcrumbs control, so that IsoBuster now runs on Windows 2000 (Win2K) again

Several improvements parsing NTFS to deal with illegal values, especially during a scan for missing or deleted files/folders, to avoid exception errors

Fixed an exception error when opening a CUE that points to multiple files but more than one of those files are not available

Fixed a serious and possible data corruption issue with NTFS for large + fragmented files, on extraction to HD or elsewhere, because the offset in the first block would be wrong

Fixed a data corruption issue with NTFS for files that fit in the $MFT records, but only on 4Kn drives, so drives that have 4096 bytes per block native and expose those blocks as such (so not 512e drives)

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